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I recently bought a Xeon E3-1230, running on a Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard, as seems to be a pretty common setup around here. As my usual practice with a new system, I proceeded to run some stress tests under 100% load to make sure the system does not have a fault that will appear later...

I'm looking at building a system with a M1015 connected to 4-8 SATA drives and am determining which motherboard to get. I see that the M1015 is physically PCI Express x8, but some motherboards just have slots that are electrically x4 (but physically 8x or 16x). Does anyone have any experience...

I'm planning a build with ZFS and have seen that the ZFS documentation recommends using the entire hard drives instead of slices/partitions. However, I've been thinking about the case where one manufacturer's hard drive might have a few less sectors on it than another's, which would cause you to...

I'm looking at building an ESXi all-in-one box using the Intel Xeon E3-1230 processor, which uses a Socket 1155 motherboard. It looks like this processor is very fast and reasonably priced. I'd like to be able to outfit it with 32GB of RAM, for use with virtual machines. I'm not sure if I'm...

I'm looking to set up a server to store files using ZFS and also run some virtual machines. The napp-it all in one concept is basically what I'm looking at doing, but I am a bit disappointed by the fact that with ESXi you need VT-D support in order to do it properly, as VT-D support limits your...

I'm pondering a build using Napp-it's All In One documentation, where ESXi hosts virtual machines, one being a server that does ZFS, and a few other virtual machines, one being a database server but several others being light-use clients running Windows. We have some current machines with old...